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Re: American Politics thread: Nixon Two - Electric Boogaloo

Originally Posted by Kaiolino

Have they? They still aren't showing up at the polls.

An extreme Trump district going only +6 for the Republican isn't a participation trophy celebration, it's a statistical signal.
By contrast one would be extremely nervous if a Republican lost in a very blue area by just a few points. As in the governor race in my state four years ago.
Likewise, as a resident of a minuscule blue state I can assure you that we're not somehow border to border hippies and the possibility of regressive pieces of shit taking us over is nothing to sneeze about. Republican control of a state right now is the difference between stuff like plugging into the healthcare benefits of Obamacare (if they even last), and doing stuff like cooperating with Trump's immigration gestapo orders.

This isn't even remotely complex, if Samantha Bee has an actual good point here it's not literal, and what she's doing should be taken in the sense of a hardcore training regiment of never being happy until a result is given. Not an actual data driven or logical point, but an emotional "DO ANOTHER LAP ROCKO!!! PUNCH MORE FROZEN MEAT UNTIL YER HANDS BLEED."

Re: American Politics thread: Nixon Two - Electric Boogaloo

Originally Posted by onemoment

In sad news, ICE now posting a list of crimes commited by immigrants. I think this might be that "V.O.I.C.E thing that trump mentioned in his speech a while back, and its sad to see it become real. I know a lot of people compare Trump to Hilter, but this is literally something Hilter did.

Re: American Politics thread: Nixon Two - Electric Boogaloo

The difference is less overt talk of the race with it, but the "CULTURAL SPHERE CLASH, NOTHING LIKE US NOTHING LIKE US" was always there.

How exactly do you think you Europeans were chiefly racist against your usually identical looking neighbors?

I guess i just thought the shift from you are what you are based on your heritage and/or birth, and the you are what you choose to align yourself with was a fairly modern thing. In that for instance a Perso-Hungarian dude can take up the flag of "white persecution" because he considers himself part of, or atleast sympathetic to, that alignment. And be accepted by these alt-right dudes in return because he chose the right alignment. But you're the historian, if you say that this has always been at the back drop of things, then who am i to argue.

Re: American Politics thread: Nixon Two - Electric Boogaloo

The electronics ban affects flights from international airports to the U.S. from in Amman, Jordan; Kuwait City, Kuwait; Cairo; Istanbul; Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Casablanca, Morocco; Doha, Qatar; and Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

This feels like an assault on specific airlines which are transit hubs in the Middle East.

Re: American Politics thread: Nixon Two - Electric Boogaloo

The electronics ban affects flights from international airports to the U.S. from in Amman, Jordan; Kuwait City, Kuwait; Cairo; Istanbul; Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Casablanca, Morocco; Doha, Qatar; and Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

This feels like an assault on specific airlines which are transit hubs in the Middle East.

Worrisome. This seems like something that could backfire, at least in terms of public relations. I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't the end of it.

Re: American Politics thread: Nixon Two - Electric Boogaloo

Man, when Trump is out, the next Democrat pres and the supreme court are going to pass so many laws to check the president's power that no one ever dreamed would be called for.

That's what we always end up doing. Republicans win, do their shit, then Democrats win and have to clean up all their shit. I shudder to think of how fast Trump is going to un-do all of Obama's hard work.

Re: American Politics thread: Nixon Two - Electric Boogaloo

Am I the only one who finds out disturbing that the Presidency seems to be more about undoing the last guy's stuff now? Trump is gunning for Obama's legacy while whoever succeeds Trump is going to need to undo as much of his damage as possible.

Waldorf: You know Statler, after watching the last seven hundred episodes of One Piece, I think I've come to a conclusion.Statler: No you haven't.Both: DOHOHOHOHOHO!